The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1887-05-13
BILL ARPS LETTER.
THERE Is 40 SuCu TTINI AS TIE NEW
SOUTH

shot, and nm proud oft. Just let any
body come out aud fling a. her and her
friends come out like hornets from
nest. Professor Tillct; of the Wander.
tilt University, has been vcntlatinc his
sophomore opinions in the Century, and
bclittlcing the grand old gentlemen Of the
oldcn time as 'dopcnlcut idlers' and
"gcutlcmeu idlcrs," and says they were
little more than ovcrsccrs Of the blacks"
lie asserts that call our advancement in
industry and prosperity, and cducaton,
and literature, and morals, and religion is
due to the emancipation Of the white man
from his bondage to illcncss, which is in-
scparabc from the ownership Of slaves
l don't know who this professor is, nor
whore he was born, but the spirit of lis
article is foul SANDER upon the old South.
lie either knew nothing about her or he is
just writing for buncombc. Just such y
tissue of msconception and miSrcprcscnta
tion was never gotten togcthcr-not even by
Cable.
The Christian 4ld0ocatc of Nashville,
seems to be intensely disguised. and says:
"Is it all new? Was there no manhood
until now? Was the great names that we
revcrcd only the creatures of fancy--thc
myths that appear iu tho carly history Of
all barbarous people? Were Washington
and Jefferson and Madison mere creatures
Of mythologic age? Were Jackson, aud
Clay, and Calhoun, aud Benton, and Ma
con, and Polk, and Bell, and Stephens,
and Crittcndcn the dcmi-gods of 4 prchis-
toric race? Is it dclusion that Taylor,
and Houston, and Crockett, and Travis,
and Lee, and jackson, and Sidney john
ston, and Stuart, and Morgan, and Forrest
belonged to the old South Who arc the
mcr that now lead the new South, but the
men who led the old South Who repre-
sent us in the halls or Cun?r4SSnarA ria
word, what is there that is goo,! in the
new South that WAS not rooted in the old
South ?
Then the (hriHi,m M,7c.c takes i. up
and says
'Wc belong to the new South and hope
to keep abreast Of her in all her progress
in what is g,Vd. But we also belong to
the old South and are proud Of her history.
We acknowledge our present as the of
spring Of our past and not of somebody
else past. What there is good in us is
not OF puritan origin. The puritanS are
welcome to their own glory, but they shall
not appropriate ours. We shall transmit
to our pOStcriiy what we received from
our iorci#the:s-.the history, traditions,
char ,ctcrs and blood Of thccavaicr
But the most elaborate and admirable
reply to Professor Tilctt comes from Dr.
y. l., Ward, in the Mississippi CIorion
1t is grand, it is cloqucn. and convincing
1t is worthy to be preserved in every scrap
book. It awclis the heart of the true
Southcrncr with pride. lie reads it and
feels good and reads it again. He says in
the outs ct that the professor is skirmi,h-
Ing to bring himself within the scope of
the gale which has recently given such
graceful swell to the sails of Mr.. GRADY,
but unfortunately his zeal is not tempered
with the vein Of native loyalty which tin
giles through the cloqucncc Of Georgia
gifted and popular editor
lie says in his summing up for period
Of Gl years, from lIS9 to lSj3 the South
furnished eight Presidents whose terms
covered - years She furnished fourteen
Secretaries Of State, eleven Secretaries Of
War, thirty Presidents of the Senate,
thry-one Speakers Of tie House. two
Chief Justices Of great c:nncncc, twenty
nine Associate Justices, twcnty-onc Att +
ncy Generals and ninety nine ministers to
foreign countries.
There is 10 new South. The term is :.
mlsnomcr and myth. 1t is simply
phrase costume in which old prciulicc>
masquerade through modern prints seek
iay t. r,rvcrt the education of Southern
chi!d!cn into the conviction tlat their an.
ccStorS, Il iOi criminals. were little more
than Il race OF i@'cis. b,un,l,l,Is. iiacG
head, and failures The literature Icli Iy
our statesmen will stand as ulopumcnta "!
wisdom and models Of classical lore. In
all the departments of government, in Law,
literature and science, while the South
has boa>tcd Of 10 great arny Of writer.
she has furnished the MUD, p?oducfivc of